I hit 40 at the end of last year - which means many of my friends are doing the same.
It was to celebrate one of their birthdays that I found myself at a Leeds indie club on Saturday night. It was full of young, heterosexual Yorkshire people. A very strange place for me.
But they still danced to the Housemartins, Jimi Hendrix and, most bizarrely, Kim Wilde. I knew it was Kids in America from the very first note.
I'm an eighties boy at heart, I concede. Unfortunately, most of the people there were born in the (late) 80s. I was probably older than the fathers of some of them.
Anyway, to me Jimi Hendrix and The Doors were too old to dance to back in the 80s. They're from dad's generation. At certain places, they were still played.
But at clubs in the 80s, nobody would have played music from 40 years before. If they did, I'd have spent my youth bopping away to Glenn Miller.
So what did I learn? Do young people today have no culture of their own? Are we oldies still buying music and polluting their youth?
Probably. But I personally would rather have heard familiar stuff coming through the speakers. If it hadn't been for the music, everything there would have been alien.